KiHu Posted June 5, 2009 Share Posted June 5, 2009 Oh Crap, Seems I've messed up big time now. In my spree to change user account settings for a limited account, I ended up locking one of my harddrives..for EVERYONE. Ive rebooted into safe mode, and ive checked all user accounts, and none of the accounts have access to the Security tab, nor do icacls or takeown have any chance or removing and changing the settings. Im sorry if im being troublesome, but I really need to get this harddrive working. and that Fast. ...also, hopefully without having to reformat. Ps: Running Windows 7 -dao. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FaiKee Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 try this: :) http://www.askvg.com/wp-content/uploads/20...stry-tweaks.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tranceandy Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 You could try using the takeown command Click on start and type cmd, then right click and choose Run as administrator or hold down CTRL and SHIFT and press ENTER type in: takeown /f H: /r /d Y You should then be able to reset the security permissions to give access permissions you want. If you are dual booting OS's be careful as you may lose access from the other OS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiHu Posted June 6, 2009 Author Share Posted June 6, 2009 You could try using the takeown command Read my post, I tried that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vlad Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Did you try chacl? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiHu Posted June 6, 2009 Author Share Posted June 6, 2009 Did you try chacl? isnt that like a linux command? (reading google) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pompeius Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 I found this regarding chacl, don't know much about it myself though. http://www.mkssoftware.com/docs/man1/chacl.1.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slinky333 Posted June 6, 2009 Share Posted June 6, 2009 Try using takeown or icacls but with psexec: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinte...s/bb897553.aspx Use the -s switch to run takeown or icacls as the SYSTEM account. Remember to specify the administrators group as owner though, otherwise SYSTEM will end up being the owner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozgeek Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 Try taking the affected hard drive out and putting it into another computer. Then you should be able to take ownership of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiHu Posted June 7, 2009 Author Share Posted June 7, 2009 GAh I gave up and formatted the sh**..someone lock this thread. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozgeek Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 WAIT! You can't lose data when formatting. It's still recoverable as long as you don't use or put any more data on it. When you format, it actually delete a special area called FAT (file allocation table) which is basically an index of the files on the hard drive. While the index is gone, you can still recover files. It's just inacessible after you format but there are software that will help you recover them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tranceandy Posted June 7, 2009 Share Posted June 7, 2009 Read my post, I tried that. Sorry, my mistake :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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